it is composed; and notwithstanding this, it is far more lasting than any of the beauties which they disperse with such kind and profuse variety. It is valuable too on another account : It is infectious-I have known it go through large families of young ladies; a circumstance attended with this inconvenience only, that it renders an admirer's choice a little more difficult; but surely the risk is diminished when the power of making a wrong choice is taken away. And it has another advantage, which ought to recommend it to persons of moderate incomes. Although more highly valued than any of the kinds of Beauty of which we have been speaking, it is by far the cheapest, and will not only keep good in all weathers and climates, but "in all time of our tribulation, in all time of our wealth, and at the hour of death."

THE PROJECTOR. No 76.

"Their tribe, trade, trinkets, I defy them all,
With every work of 'Pothecary's Hall."

DRYDEN.

November 1807.

IN N one of the late Foreign Journals, we are informed that Mr. Lichtenthal, a learned German, has published a work in which he proposes to cure all diseases by Musick. I am sorry that the interruption occasioned by the war to the Continental trade prevents my giving my readers a more particular account of this important work. If Mr. Lichtenthal has proved the excellence of his plan only in theory, he surely deserves to be better known to the world; but, at the same time, his success may perhaps have a tendency to prolong the embargo laid by France upon all trade to England; for if our enemy can keep from us such a book as Mr. Lichtenthal's, we cannot be surprized if he should imagine it will afford him the means of compelling us tó us to agree to a negotiation upon

My readers, I hope, will do me the justice to allow that I have ever been as anxious to

bring forward the Projects of other persons as I have afforded no reason to suspect my own. me of jealousy, or of any wish, secret or otherwise, to suppress the many excellent plans with which the PROJECTORS of the Continent are daily favouring the world. I have already sounded the praises of one or two ingenious Frenchmen; and with equal zeal I am disposed to give all due tribute to an invention of such importance as the art of curing diseases by Musick. If, in performing this liberal duty, I shall be found a little sceptical on some points, I hope my readers will not attribute that to any defects in Mr. Lichtenthal's plan, but merely to the circumstance already noticed; namely, that I have not yet had an opportunity of perusing his book.

Of the utility of his plan no person can for a moment entertain any doubt, who considers the present state of diseases and medicine in this country. Notwithstanding the learning and ingenuity of the English Faculty, aided by every kind of lectures and experience, it cannot be denied that many disorders continue to baffle their skill; and that of those which they are able to cure, some are very obstinate, and in

others the process of cure is tedious and painful. It is equally obvious, that the medicines now adopted, notwithstanding all the means used to sweeten them to the palate, and to colour them to the eye, are both in taste and operation far less agreeable than common food, not to speak of the luxuries of a well-covered table. Let it be added too, that sick persons are often peevish and refractory, and more ready to retard than promote their cure; that Physicians are sometimes impatient, and Apothecaries a little careless or ignorant; and, all these things considered, I think it cannot be doubted that any new mode of curing disorders must be highly acceptable.

Next to the utility of this plan, it comes very strongly recommended by the easiness with which it may be introduced into this country. Although it will certainly occasion a total revolution in our medical system; although it will render the College of Physicians, and Apothecaries' Hall, quite useless; yet I have no doubt that a liberal Parliament will have no objection to vote a compensation to such persons as can prove they have suffered by it. On the other hand, let us only consider what facilities the present state of our country affords to the introduction of Mr. Lich

tenthal's project. We are not only provided with a great variety of diseases that will enable us to prove its efficacy; but we have likewise all the Materia Medica, all the medicines necessary in physical cases, and all the instruments adapted to surgical ones. Never, perhaps, was the country so amply stored with musical remedies. Not a house but is provided with a piano, a harpsichord, a guitar, or a harp. Not a sale of the furniture of the lowest tradesman without one or other of these medicines; and it was therefore with more meaning than he intended, that an eminent dealer lately told me, "Piano-fortes are now a mere drug."

It has, indeed, been objected by some writers on education, that young ladies are too frequently taught musick; and that it is introduced in all schools as a necessary branch of education. It is forgot that a natural genius only can prevent scholars from exposing themselves before company, which they are invited to do by their indulgent parents, who know nothing of the art, and have no ear to distinguish discords from concords. All this may be true; and, if we had no better prospects from the education of the rising generation, it might yet be a source of complaint. But when